Introduction

 Hello! My name is Alissa and I am a senior at the University of the Pacific. I am a double major in English and Psychology and, like many of you, I am a stressed-out college student. It is already stressful enough being in college (but yay! we're doing the damn thing), but put a worldwide pandemic on top of it, it's a recipe for a plethora of feelings. I plan to use this blog as a means of putting out there what kinds of stress I am dealing with as I navigate my last semester and as a way of sharing different ways of dealing with the stress of learning (and working) in a pandemic. My hope is that as I work through different ways of handling stress, I will be able to share and inspire others to find new ways of dealing with stress that may not be so conventional. I will look at the normal conventional ways of handling stress, but I will also look at possibly weird or just plain different ways of handling stress. I hope that through my experiences there will be people that find new ways of dealing with their stress and that they will find more positive ways of staying sane distance learning through a pandemic.